The School of Mechanical Engineering can be traced back to earlier Iron and Mechanic Department of USTB  in 1952.

As the school has developed for 66 years, it now has 5 undergraduate programs, 3 graduate disciplines  and 4 engineering Master-degree Programs. And the School consists of 7 departments , 4 research institutes,and 4 national and provincial level major labs and engineering centers . Disciplines cover engineering, management and art. Over 400 undergraduates and 300 graduates students enroll in the school annually. It is a distinctive feature of the school to cultivate compound talents of both engineering and art knowledge.

The school has high-level faculties including the academics of Chinese Academy of Engineering, the winners of China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists, researchers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences “ One-hundred talent program” and members of the global IEEE RAS Management Committee, and the prestigious national teaching team. The school has more than 170 faculty members, including 120 full-time teachers, over 30 professors, and more than 50 associate professors. Over 66 years, the college has trained more than 15,000 undergraduate students, over 3,000 master students and more than 400 doctoral students among them there is the academics of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the chief commander of the Chinese deep-sea manned submersible "Jiao Long", and an expert in China's manned spaceflight engineering, political elites, business leaders and other national pillars in politics, economics, science, education and other fields.